Fwd: Web part of bugzilla is ready

Fwd: Web part of bugzilla is ready

[Daniel Berlin]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri Jan 31, 2003  8:11:59  PM US/Eastern
> To: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@covad.net>
> Subject: Re: Web part of bugzilla is ready
>
> I try to stay clear of gnats as much as possible, so it's probably best
> if you send the questions below to overseers@gcc.gnu.org.  Maybe 
> someone
> there will know the definitive answer.
>
> cgf
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:11:49PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>> The web portion of bugzilla is ready.
>>
>>
>> 1. I need to know how gcc-gnats actually works (IE the mail flow).
>> To auto-parse incoming gnats reports, i need to feed the entire 
>> message
>> into a perl script that has access to bugzilla.
>>
>> How does mail to gcc-gnats end up on gcc-bugs? (IE is it 
>> auto-mirroring
>> in qmail, or is it done by a gnats handling script).
>>
>> 2. We need a new email address for the easier to use bugzilla mail
>> interface (which allows one to get sent ascii pretty printed bugs,
>> closed/modify bugs, etc, from email).  This is also a perl script that
>> needs access to the bugzilla and bugzilla/data dir.
>>
>> 3. How does gcc-bugs email get appended to a bug?  For bugzilla, it's,
>> as one would imagine, a perl script that does it.
>>
>> All these perl scripts expect to get fed the entire message.
>> They need read/execute access to the main bugzilla dir (to be able to
>> read the perl files they pull in), and read/write/execute access
>> bugzilla/data dir.
>